Liam Byrne

You've got particular communities that have gone into serious decline, where social capital has collapsed, where social media is especially divisive.

And so...

It's not just people's financial horizons that have shrunk.

It's their local horizons that have got much worse because they're looking at a shuttered high street, fly tipping, the library's been closed, there's nothing open, they don't feel in control.

And so their lives just feel like they're going backwards.

And so people are naturally kind of angry.

So when we basically did our big survey work on who is voting for reform,

We found two things.

One, they're not actually an army marching in lockstep.

There are these five tribes of reform.

Some are different, but there is a few things they've got in common.

They felt under pressure financially.

They're really pessimistic about their future prospects.

They're living in communities that they feel are in sharp decline.

They then feel a sense of dispossession about their place in the queue and they feel that others are jumping ahead of them and they're furious about broken politics.

Those kind of five things basically get a lot worse for a lot more people after the financial crash.

For one big reason, because politics has become zero-sum.

When you've got this kind of low-growth economy...

What you gain is what I think I lose.

And so politics becomes changed.